The Sami Publishing Company (SPC) and its editorial team are committed to transparency and accuracy and are prepared to issue corrections, clarifications, retractions, or apologies whenever necessary. All articles published in SPC Open Access journals are made fully open access and are immediately available for reading, downloading, and sharing without restriction. Publications in SPC journals are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This license allows users to read, print, download, copy, distribute, republish (including repository display), translate, and reuse content for text and data mining, as well as to incorporate portions of the work into other publications, including for commercial purposes, provided proper attribution is given. To ensure originality, all submitted manuscripts are screened using iThenticate similarity-checking software and are subsequently subjected to a rigorous peer-review process conducted by international experts.
Benefits of Open Access Publishing
Publishing in open-access journals significantly enhances the visibility and impact of scholarly work. Reported advantages include:
Ø Open-access articles receive approximately 1.6 times more citations than non-open-access articles across all disciplines.
Ø Downloads of open-access articles are about four times higher than those of subscription-based articles.
Ø Open access publications attract 2.5 times more Altmetric attention, including 1.9 times more news coverage and 1.2 times more policy citations.